This paper deals with the comprehensive lexicon of Czech verbs named VerbaLex. It contains complex valency verb frames (CVFs) including both surface and deep valencies. The most notable features of CVFs include two-level semantic labels with linkage to the Princeton and EuroWordNet Top Ontology hierarchy and the corresponding surface verb frame patterns capturing the morphological cases that ar...

In Turkish, (and possibly in many other languages) verbs often convey several meanings (some totally unrelated) when they are used with subjects, objects, oblique objects, adverbial adjuncts, with certain lexical, morphological, and semantic features, and co-occurrence restrictions. In addition to the usual sense variations due to selectional restrictions on verbal arguments, in most cases, the...

Recent years have seen a revived interst in semantic parsing by applying statistical and machinelearning methods to semantically annotated corpora such as the FrameNet and the Proposition Bank. So far much of the research has been focused on English due to the lack of semantically annotated resources in other languages. In this paper, we report first results on semantic role labeling using a pr...

There is considerable evidence showing that the human sentence processor is guided by lexical preferences in resolving syntactic ambiguities. Several types of preferences have been identified, including morphological, syntactic, and semantic ones. However, the literature fails to provide a uniform account of what lexical preferences are and how they should be measured. The present paper provide...

An attempt was made to semi-automatically obtain “lexical units” (LUs) for Japanese from the English LUs defined in the semantic frame database provided by Berkeley FrameNet (BFN) using an English-Japanese bilingual corpus. This task was a prerequisite to building a complete database of semantic frames for Japanese. In the task, a Japanese word is first translated into an English word or phrase...

The current research aims at exploring and comparing the semantic frames of motion verbs in English Persian. In pursuit this goal, novel Animal farm by G. Orwell (1945) was selected compared with its Persian translation, Qale heyvanat (Atefi, 2010). sentences including were primarily extracted from then a comparison made between each sentence counterpart. Afterwards, obtained FrameNet database....

In this paper we will discuss interpretation of adverbs in Japanese. We will explore the division of labor between the syntactic requirements, semantic requirements, and discourse-contextual constraints involving adverbial interpretation. It will then be argued that this inter-modular approach utilizing LFG explains various elusive paradigms of the adverbs. 1. Scope Ambiguity and Lexical Semant...

This paper details the system NILC USP that participated in the Semeval 2014: Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis task. This system uses a Conditional Random Field (CRF) algorithm for extracting the aspects mentioned in the text. Our work added semantic labels into a basic feature set for measuring the efficiency of those for aspect extraction. We used the semantic roles and the highest verb frame ...